•two corn dogs
•two cheese sticks
•~3oz peanuts
•12oz root beer
That isn’t eating clean, nor am I going to be able to say I didn’t have a soda in 2023.
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Daily Pushups :
~215am
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I wonder what weight a person I could weighted pushup.
It’s been a good period since I’ve had someone STAND on my back, and I know my pressing strength is far higher than the poundage involved in my daily pushups.
I’ve increases my press in the interim, an improvement in weighted pushups and by extension bench is a given.
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Freestyle Pushups :
There are more variants to pushups than vanilla – around the world, typewriter, pauses, range of motion, rep speed.
I’m mostly used to woody woodpeckers.
Lately I’ve been doing more strict vanillas, and today decided to play with the handful of variables listed above.
My upper body pumped with less work this way – it’s “new” strength stimulus.
One can always revert to pushups.
Picture this :
The results you would get doing pushups and running ~40yd dashes (preferably slightly inclined) like a madman – wild eyed intensity, putting everything you know about training effectively into the effort.
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Reading about training is something I’d describe as a personal hobby.
I do to much of it (and not enough training).
Nor am I the only person I know who does this.
It strikes you, reading online, that all these people on the other side of a screen somewhere – instead of asking they could just try.
Don’t ask that forum if this is a good program or diet idea – put it into action and find out for yourself.
Training Lessons From High School :
I think back to high school, there were some “dumb jocks”, barely keeping football eligibility with a d average, calories high with donuts, mcdonalds, beer – not a healthy diet, but benching trucks and shit.
How?
By being in the weight room daily (or as close to it as possible), and working.
This kid swore up and down he felt the raised testosterone in his veins after lifting – his program something magical he found online.
This kid, the linebacker, wanted to do 1000 abs daily, so he did.
I read, the created some sort of monster with my own personal touches out of whatever program sounded almost good to me.
Sports practice saw a bunch of these dudes sprint and run any distance well enough.
Those willing to both eat, and condition tended to do better than those who only lifted.
It’s not high testosterone to stress details.
Remember that.
The strong, athletic kids tended to simply be physical often.
I shouldn’t have read so much online, it kept me weak longer than I had needed be.
I know how I’d train myself if given a time machine to coach myself, but that’s not reality.
In the moment I struggle with actually being highly active and finding the balance between eating clean, and eating big which has been habit for most of the past 12 years.
I could just join that powerlifting gym, care about nothing else but powerbuilding, and eat a lot, in g-flux baby with prowler sprints, yoke walks, lots of lifting, and the seasonally part time moving job.
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Don’t make this complicated.
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5 pullups
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25 dips – this is having gone down for me
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6:00 bleachers
ran the first minute of ups, mostly walking after that – it’d be worth it to do these wearing a mouth guard so as to not instantly be mouth breathing
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Funny note :
Just as I was about to do dips, two ran by at a good pace – 5’10” 170, 6’4″ 190 – probably father and son, dad pushing the pace.
:30 later a couple, 6’2″ 230 fit military type, and a 5’6″ she obviously squats medium thick woman ran by.
An hour later I drove by them again – the big military dude in front setting pace, the tall lean early 40s dude a step behind, the woman maybe three paces back.
Whether the pace was being kept for big dude or the woman – they had to have ran and jogged 6+ miles at better than an 8:00 pace – the teenager was not with the group at this point.
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“Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot nine days old.”
•split pea soup (dried peas, ham, potato, carrots, celery, onion) parmesan cheese
•milk
•2oz peanuts
•sourdough toast – 2 slices with butter
•12oz root beer (again)
“You can’t ruin the bread with too much butter.”
I’m not eating keto, but sans the root beer this was clean.
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The eating of honey roasted peanuts, split pea soup, legumes in general – it’s historically, and today with eggs, beef, and chicken seemingly inflating in price to no end, the poor man’s protein.
Split pea soup, with as much pork as you can get in there, again not keto, is historical hearty fare.
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The lentil and split pea are the highest count of protein per dollar in the grocery store.
I suggest you drink copious milk, as much meat as you can get your hands on, cheese as you please, and if/when you’re poor to take advantage of the affordability of root vegetables and split pease in the pot.
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The best thing I could do for my press would be a lot of power cleans.
More reps of power cleans than reps of press – to invert my usual rep count.
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Those few pullups, that little bit of bleachers, my back it pumped, high activation, it feels great – in a moment with the last daylight I’ll get my lift in – the question is what.
I’ll find out when I do it.
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Lift :
C&P Every Rep Style
4×2 every 1:30 w/175lbs
Press
10×175
mouth guard in the entire c&p time
no mouth guard for press only sets
The press set is probably a PR – I don’t recall having hit 10×185 before.
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Yeah, I’m going to be very strong alongside having wind again.
Seeing that group of runners today motivates me.
Cardio doesn’t take long, and I’m hitting a groove as far as improvements in press training.
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Regular horse stance is worthwhile.
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People act like they don’t have space to lift a barbell at home.
I once came across 60s home video of a man who did weightlifting in his kitchen.
I’ve heard multiple anecdotes of people, generally high level, having a platform in apartment living rooms – both powerlifters and weightlifters.
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I spend a good day of time outside on my days off.
In the cold wearing less than most would considering the temperature – I’m not doing Wim Hof method – I do enjoy the cold.
I feel good outside, whereas I often feel cooped up upon waking.
So pretty quickly I get outside.
Indoors all day is no way to live – indoors you waste your life away in front of screens.
Outdoors you can be the one person using the outdoor pullup bar, the outdoor dip bar, then running bleachers shirtless because 30° doesn’t matter and there’s sun to be had on your chest.
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Looking for _____
a worthy woman, money, space, and time freedom – I’d like to be owner of a real bumping hybrid of a strongman and commercial gym
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We have problems since we don’t standardly put all of our energies into our passions.
A lifetime hiding behind a screen isn’t the way to live.
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Lots of pulling from the floor, power snatches, overhead squats, power cleans, presses, deadlifts – you’ll be muscular.
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Funny how I never front squat or back squat, am doing fine without it, and really just wish I had a rack, thompson bar, 1000lbs of plates, and a place to leave this all out in the elements.
I’m really coming to love the fresh air aspect of The Cold Air Barbell Club.
Would I use a 50ish lb pair of dumbbells or kettlebells?
Sandbag or rock would be far more affordable for the 100ish lb shoulder and overhead conditioning.
As is I already have a 75lb dumbbell.
Put it overhead a bit every morning.
It’s a good idea.
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twix, two hersheys (the three bite size), four eggs, green beans, american cheese
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Cooking the above, I felt a sense of pride, washing the bowl by hand, cooking it – it’s a simple step, many don’t.
Cook your own food.
Wash your own dishes – not letting them stack up, not running a dishwasher twice a week, washing your dishes on a reasonable time frame soon after use.
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More pushups
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•½ salami sandwich (the usual work sandwich), milk
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Persistence & Tenacity